They're back

[ricevermicelli]

Someone has already managed to get a truck stuck under a bridge on Storrow Drive East.

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[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

Ah, September, when you find out which of the incoming freshmen has a good spatial sense and which need to change their major to English!

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Don't be dissin' no English majors, yo. English majors have all the free time they need to write seriously creative insulting poetry about you in the washrooms at the library.

In other news, boston.com has a slideshow in which two decorators use $300 to turn the largest, swankest dorm room I have ever seen into an even swanker dorm room. It appears that beds are optional. (http://www.boston.com/yourlife/backtocampus/0831_dormmakeover/)

I have been in some pretty damn swank dorm rooms (my sophomore year, I had French windows), but I don't get where they get off calling this particular space drab or institutional, although the shot in which they pile all the furniture up in one corner and position the camera so you can't see the fireplace is kind of arty in a reverse realtor sort of way.

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

Oh, brother. I mean, te furniture is kind of blah, but my sophomore dorm room was so tiny I had to get out of bed facing the dresser if I wanted clothes! That isn't what I'd call "drab" at all.

(Of course, the freshman one was huge, but I had to share it.)

[deadwinter.livejournal.com]

Why do I always miss this? I've lived in this city for 7 years and this is one of the things I have always wanted to see.

Next year I'll just camp out on Memorial with some popcorn

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

You could still go. It'll happen again. Today, even.

The local truck rental places give out instruction sheets telling you not to take the truck on Storrow Drive, but lots of people had to rent from out of state.

[deadwinter.livejournal.com]

the funny thing is that, smartass that I am, I was all set to make fun of these people, then on a lark I started looking at the signage on Mem more carefully. If you are coming from the East, the signs saying "No Trucks" are really easy to miss. So they are not that retarded.

On the other hand, the signs that clearly says "CLEARANCE 9 Ft" are hard to miss. Once would assume that the number "11" painted on the side of the truck would indicate an imcompatibility, to most people...

[(Anonymous)]

All they did was get stuck? And I used to think freshmen were imaginative.... There was a picture many years ago of my choral conductor crawling out of the passenger window of his car (at Magazine St. pedestrian overpass), because the impassable truck next to him had been full of apples that had covered the other exits and blocked that door from opening. This was probably \not/ the inspiration for the recurring scene in the Back to the Future movies, but one can dream....

OTOH, the "11" on the truck tends not to be very noticeable, especially if you're busy/excited/...; the ones I've seen have been ~4" high.

/CHip